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Previous/Next Record

#449 Mar 31, 2024 pro

In this episode, we'll explore the process of creating Previous and Next links for a record, but then refactor it to be more maintainable.

rails model view

Authentication Timeout

#448 Mar 24, 2024 pro

In this episode, we'll explore adding the ability to extend an authenticated session wish is about to expire. We'll be using a Stimulus controller for the bulk of the logic and the provided functionality that Devise gives us out of the box.

rails security devise

Bulk Updates

#447 Mar 17, 2024 pro

Updating multiple records in the UI of a Rails app could be tricky. In this episode, we'll look at updating multiple records at the same time from scratch. We'll create a Stimulus controller to handle some of the front end functionality.

rails stimulusjs javascript activerecord

LLM Context

#446 Mar 10, 2024 pro

Building on the previous episode, we look at refactoring our background job into a more maintainable object and provide context to the LLM so that we can chain together responses for a more conversational experience.

rails ai artificial intelligence background processing machine learning

Campfire Bots

#444 Feb 25, 2024 pro

In this episode, we explore the practical use of Campfire Bots for webhook applications. We'll start by setting up an AI Image Generator bot that interacts with our Ruby on Rails application, and then connect it to a self-hosted Large Language Model (LLM). Our initial goal is to get the system working. After that, we'll focus on refactoring the code to improve its safety and maintainability.

rails artificial intelligence background processing webhooks api

Reloadable Fixtures

#443 Feb 18, 2024 pro

In this episode, we'll have a look at a way where we can use fixtures to manage the data in our development environment, tests and a demo environment. We'll dive into some complications and nuances with handling fixtures in ActionText and ActiveStorage.

rails fixtures development

CSS and JS in Rails Engines

#442 Feb 11, 2024 pro

Setting up a Rails Engine with the TailwindCSS and Hotwire via Importmaps can be rather difficult. There's a lot of undocumented steps to take and it can be overwhelming to approach these problems. In this episode, we look at a step by step approach to both adding TailwindCSS and Turbo & Stimulus into a Rails Engine.

rails engine hotwire stimulusjs turbo tailwind

Campfire Deploy with Kamal

#440 Jan 28, 2024 pro

In this episode, we look at setting up our Campfire instance to be deployable with Kamal instead of the Once CLI. This has a few benefits over the standard deployment mechanism if you are going to be tweaking and making your own changes to the Campfire code. We'll also look at taking in the incoming changes from Once to rebase into our Kamal setup.

rails campfire deployment kamal

Solid Queue

#438 Jan 21, 2024 pro

Solid Queue is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. In this episode, we'll look at exploring Solid Queue and and option for a graphical interface to view the jobs.

rails background processing activejob

Action Auth

#437 Jan 14, 2024 pro

With Rails 7.1 came a bunch of new features around token generation and with this release, I've been working on a new authentication solution that provides the basic requirements of authentication out of the box, but also has advanced features like Passkeys that are easy to implement and use.

rails 7.1 authentication

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